remembering test

Romanian translation: reamintirea instrucţiunilor testului

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"[0036] The ADAS consists of two parts--a cognitive subscale and a behavioral subscale. The behavioral subscale was not be used in this study. The cognitive subscale, the ADAS--cog-11, consisted of Word Recall and Word Recognition memory tests, Object and Finger Naming, Commands, Constructional Praxis, Ideational Praxis, Orientation, ***Remembering Test*** Instructions, Spoken language Ability, Comprehension of Spoken language and Word Finding Difficulty was the primary variable in this study."

So they *do* mean recalling the instructions for the test (a "remembering test"!) I'm not sure why they're using two different names for this test/task, but I can sympathise with them for not wanting to put "remembering remembering test instructions"!

"INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE REMEMBERING TEST
Evaluate the subject's capacity to recall the requirements of the word recognition task, based on noting each instance of failure to recall the test instructions.
Subject never needs extra reminders of the instructions
Very mild – forgets once
Mild – must be reminded twice
Moderate – must be reminded 3 or 4 times
Moderately Severe – must be reminded 5 or 6 times
Severe – must be reminded 7 or more times"

Explanation:I don't know why people seem to think this about instructions for a memory/recall test - for a start, they've already used "memory tests" earlier in the text (and Google "a remembering test" and "a memory test").

It's clearly a list of cognitive tasks subjects have to perform, so how would "memory test instructions" make sense in the context? I don't see how instructions for a memory/recall test can be a cognitive task in themselves.

If this is about galantamine, you may find this helpful:

"Data from the trials indicates that in half of patients with mild to moderate forms of this disease, those who usually worsen over time, cognitive scores were maintained at or above baseline throughout one year of treatment.

The results also suggest that galantamine, which recently completed Phase III trials, can significantly improve scores on a widely used scale which measures memory and learning ability, such as word recall and recognition, ***ability to remember test instructions***, and accuracy in naming objects and figures..."http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/thehea...

Judging by the above, looks like "finger naming" in your source text is an error (how can you name a finger, anyway?!) - and in fact the sentence as a whole doesn't make sense since it ends with "...Comprehension of Spoken language and Word Finding Difficulty was the primary variable in this study" (which one was?!)